User`s guide
amount of blank tape left)
and acts
as
a database for
your album collection.
Finger
Paint
.
(137
K)
Version
4.00
by
Poisson
Technology. Finger Paint
is
a
very nice shareware
"paint-
brush"
application
for
the
palmtop. The program also
allows
you to load
other
graphics
files,
such
as
scanned images
(Screen
3).
Thesaur
Plus
. (224
K)
Version
2.2 by
Derrick
Burgess
(see
Screen
4) .
Thesaur
Plus
is
a shareware
TSR
thesaurus
with
over
10,000
main
words
and
50,000
synonyms
.
This
pop-up
thesaurus
can be
very
handy
when you are
writing and can't seem to
remember
the
right word.
Easy
Project
. (167
K)
Version
4.02 by
Parcell
Software. Easy Project is a
shareware
DOS-based pro-
ject manager that runs
on
the
HP
100/200LX. The program
provides assistance to
any-
one
who manages projects.
Easy Project encourages
the manager
to
define a pro-
ject into a series of phases
and tasks.
It facilitates the
planning,
scheduling
and
tracking of all types of
pro-
jects.
The manager plans the
activities
or
tasks
in a
top/down
outline
fashion
.
The
"Gantt chart"
(a
project
management tool) displays
the
project
graphically
by
using time bars which span
the time period of each task.
The extensive reporting
mod-
ule helps document the sta-
tus of the project.
Lotus
1-2-3
Commands .
(5
K)
Vers
i
on
1.0
by
Stuart
Pollack.
This
is
a
handy
text
reference
of
Lotus
1-2-3
commands
written
by
an
expert.
It
adds
additional
information
to
the
online
help
in
Lotus
.
This
is
a
nice
addition
to
all
of
us
Lotus
1-2-3
users
who
want
to
get
the
most
out
of
our
spread-
sheets.
Freeware.
Screen 3. Finger Paint, running on the palmtop, displaying a scanned graphics file.
DIFFICULT:
-+
ABSTRACT
COMPL
I
CATED
HARD
ONEROUS
UPHILL
UNEASY
OPPRESSIVE
You
Need
to
Register
t
SynonYM
Up
~
SynonYM
Down
PgUp
Word
Up
PdDn
Word
Down
F
Find
a word
A
Add
a
SynonYM
D
Delete
SynonYM
INS
Add
a
New
Word
B Back
Track
Q
(or
Esc)
Quit
Screen 4: With Thesaur Plus on your palmtop, writing may be easier.
LXPic .
(32
K)
Version 4.2
by
Stefan Peichl. LXPic is
copyrighted freeware and is
the
fastest
GIF/ICN/PCX
/JPG/BMP
viewer
for
100/200
LXs
. LXPic
is
cele-
brating its one-year anniver-
sary. It needs only
11
K of
disk space
and
64K of
RAM
to decode
and
view any size
picture.
The program includes a
small
converter
for
Casio
QV-10 CAM files. Version
4.2 has been
modified
to
work with the new LXMAP
city
viewer
(see
previous
page). This is
an
absolutely
essential piece of software
to
add to
your
road
warrior
arsenal.
This
is
just a small sam-
pling of the wealth of pro-
grams
available
on
the
S.U.P.
E.R
. site, and
it
is
only
through the unending perse-
verance of the S.U.P.E.R.
members
that
this
site
is
what it is: one of the most
valuable resources for HP
Palmtop users.
Tom
Gibson,
Technical
Editor
The
HP
Palmtop
Paper
tom
_
gibson@thaddeus.com
File
Names
Many
users
today
have a
Windows
95
or Windows
NT
desktop computer. The oper-
ating systems
on
these com-
puters allow us to use long
(and thus more descriptive)
file
names,
such
as
"MYLASTPHONEBOOK."
However, such long file
names can't
be
used
on
the
HP
Palmtops, which still live
in
the good
old
DOS
days of
the
"8.3" file naming conven-
tion
(Le
., eight characters for
the name, plus a three-char-
acter extension).
If
you
were
to
take a file
that was named
ADDRESS-
BOOK.PDB
from your desk-
top
and
try
to
transfer
it
onto
you palmtop, the palmtop's
DOS
would
re-do
the
file
name to match its naming
convention, leaving you with
a filename
on
your palmtop
of
ADDRESSB.OOK. Not
surprisingly, the PhoneBook
on the
palmtop
would not
recognize this filename
as
a
valid file.
To make life easier
on
yourself, look at the name of
all
the
files
on
your
PC
before you transfer them to
your palmtop.
Tom
Gibson,
Technical
Ed/lor
The
HP
Palmtop
Paper
tom
_
gibson
@
thaddeus
,
com
Storing
your
Palmtop
I
know
this
may
seem hard
to
believe, but
you
may
want
to
store your
HP
100/200LX for
short periods of time when
it
will
not
be
in
use.
To
do
this, after backing
up
your data, replace all of
the batteries, (AA and coin
backup
battery),
turn
the
palmtop
on,
and then termi-
nate
System
Manager
by
pressing
(& .. . ) More (Menu)
Applications Ierminate
All.
By
doing
this,
the
appointments you have set,
especially repeating
appoint-
ments, won't wake
the
palm-
top up and wear down the
batteries.
This
is
simpler
and
easi-
er than going into each
and
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